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Investigators said Thursday that West stole a gun from the corrections officer who was guarding him and ran.

"We had an inmate escape, possibly has a police officer's gun, running down Lakemont," a 911 caller said Thursday.

After his escape from the hospital, officers said West then ran across the street and stole another person's vehicle.

When a Winter Park Police Department officer spotted the vehicle, he gave chase. West soon crashed his vehicle into some garbage outside a house near Maitland Boulevard on U.S. Highway 17-92.

Cornell was taken into custody at the scene without incident, according to officers. He will be charged with battery on a law enforcement officer, second-degree grand theft, armed carjacking, robbery, aggravated assault, fleeing and escape.

Officials said his original charge was criminal mischief with damage of more than $200 in connection to a burglary. He was in the hospital because of some health concerns.

Authorities said an internal investigation will be conducted in the incident with the corrections officer.